I am a scuba instructor and professional underwater photographer. I’m also obese.

Scuba is not a sport that makes one fit - especially as you get better at it and improve buoyancy skills to the point you aren’t even having to swim most of the time. When I dive, I’m essentially just existing underwater, not even supporting my own body weight.

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The only thing it’s useful at is shit that isn’t necessary.

We had a P&Z member at the city I work at get butthurt because we corrected him at a meeting, so the city manager asked me to write an apology letter to him.

That was the one time I loved ChatGPT. It was bullshit that didn’t need to happen that I didn’t care about and achieved nothing, so I let the fucking bot write it.

Well, it’s a Seagate, so it still comes out to about a hundred bucks a month.

Texas did this bigtime in 2003. The GOP, for the first time Texas history, had control over the house, Senate, and governor’s mansion. They gerrymandered the fuck out of Texas.

In 2002, the majority of US House Representatives from Texas were Democrats. After the redistricting in 2003, the 2004 elections gave the GOP its first congressional majority out of Texas, with 2/3rds of the seats.

Texas isn’t that red. Its shift to the right is fairly recent, and it was driven by having a Texan run for President and GOP fuckery with the elections.

But that’s the thing with the GOP. You give them absolute power one time, and they’ll never, ever give it up.

It’s a great play.

Every single Democrat running against these assholes next November will be able to say the Republican candidate voted against the release of the Epstein files. That’s their headshot in the debates. “Representative X voted against the release of the Epstein Files” is an easy campaign strategy.

What we need to do is start a campaign talking about how he’s not smart enough or brave enough to try and revoke her citizenship.

Dude is easily manipulated.

The original spaceship Enterprise was a test orbiter without engines.

You want to hear about a game to play?

Clair Obscur. Made from former Ubisoft team members in what sounds like a healthy development culture and it’s a godamnned masterpiece at every level. Visuals, art direction, story, characters, mechanics, music - it’s all stellar.

If art is good, I’ll appreciate it even when the people funding it aren’t doing it for the love of art.

I mean… the movie kinda points that out, too. The exec straight-up changes his tune on the idea of a realistic Barbie when he’s told it will sell.

It does a pretty good job of pointing out all aspects of Barbie, good and bad. From female empowerment to consumerism to the objectification of women and the issues surrounding body shaming.

It even calls out the film itself for casting an unrealistically beautiful, successful woman to play Barbie.

My recent experience with my phone is I tell it to set a 5 minute timer and it sets one in the fucking Google search browser, and if I page away I lose the timer.

This is a bill to arrest people trying to prevent climate change.

Trump’s first impeachment was about withholding military aid from Ukraine. Nothing came of that, and nothing will come of this. Republicans don’t care about the law.

As long they can send people to torture prisons without due process or evidence, we do NOT have a First Amendment.

I had a Fold 3, and while I loved the form factor, the battery was shit.

The screen got broken, and I decided to upgrade to a Fold 6 so far I’m very impressed. I took it off the charger in my car at 100% on Wednesday night around 10pm, and put it back on the charger at 11:30pm Friday with 15% left.

48 hours with moderate usage (including some gaming and YouTube) is pretty good.

But non-tech people aren’t buying Faiphones, but whatever they’re pushing at the Verizon store.

Buying studios wasn’t stupid.

Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.

We keep having to replace the logic board on our dryer.

Motherfucker, your job is to get hot and spin. I want the old “egg-timer that flips a switch” tech to come back.

They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.